CVE-2019-17632
mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.21.v20190926, 9.4.22.v20191022, and 9.4.23.v20191118, the generation of default unhandled Error response content (in text/html and text/json Content-Type) does not escape Exception messages in stacktraces included in error output.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
weaknesses
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affected products (9)
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- Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server9.4.21.v20190926 → 9.4.24.v20191120osvUSpkg:maven/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server
- Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server9.4.22.v20191022 → 9.4.24.v20191120osvUSpkg:maven/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server
- Maven org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server9.4.23.v20191118 → 9.4.24.v20191120osvUSpkg:maven/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server
advisories (1)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- GHSA-5h9j-q6j2-253fUnescaped exception messages in error responses in Jetty2019-12-02ghsa · osvUS
In Eclipse Jetty versions 9.4.21.v20190926, 9.4.22.v20191022, and 9.4.23.v20191118, the generation of default unhandled Error response content (in text/html and text/json Content-Type) does not escape Exception messages in stacktraces included in error output.
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references (16)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=553443cnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SAITZ27GKPD2CCNHGT2VBT4VWIBUJJNS/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17632cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Eclipse-Jetty-Cross-Site-Scripting-via-Generic-ErrorHandler-30979cnnvd
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-cognos-analytics-has-addressed-multiple-vulnerabilities-4/cnnvd
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-ibm-content-classification-is-affected-by-a-eclipse-jetty-publicly-disclosed-vulnerability/cnnvd
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlcnnvd
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlcnnvd
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